KINGDOM COME: The Hollis Crew Fights To Keep The Crown
"You know what you need to learn/old school artists don't always burn/you're just another rapper who's had his turn" I'm Still #1 ---Boogie Down Productions (1988) In just four bars, BDP lead rapper KRS-One delivered a dead-on dissertation of rap music's stylistic changeover and constant turnover of its ever-evolving cast of characters. Early deejays and emcees were supplanted by seminal figures who delivered rap's first recorded hits. It happened again when Run-D.M.C---Joey "Run" Simmons, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and deejay Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell emerged in '83 with game-changing two-sided single "It's Like That /Sucker MC's". The record's big-beat sound abruptly ended the party-rocking Sugar Hill/Enjoy style. Now the legendary group was on the ropes as rap's Golden Age was approaching. Part of the seminal class of '84 along with Whodini and the Fat Boys...